Buro 24/7 Singapore Weekly Playlist: #39

After several playlists of various explorations into electronica, we have Daydream Nation resident Jinmart to share an indie rock compilation with a few twists and turns of its own

When I'm not prepping for an event or Daydream Nation, I am mostly behind a desk, crunching numbers and watching the financial markets like a hawk — music is the only thing that keeps me going, and my sanity in check.

Although 2015 was a great year for electronic-based indie/hip-hop/R&B (think: The Weeknd, Purity Ring and Flying Lotus, heck, even Justin Bieber got in on that!), I'm going back to my indie rock/shoegaze/dream pop roots on this one (except for Peaches and Chairlift). I really like the new music direction Chairlift took on their recent release, Moth. Some call it a sell-out, but I am all for happy feet-tapping pop. And not forgetting Peaches, the Queen of effervescent, sexually-explicit songs. The legendary Kim Gordon lends her awesome vocals on this one. Watch out for that phat bass! I have also added two classic covers, each from the '80s and the '90s respectively — see if you can spot them.

I eventually rounded things up with a song from one of the best indie-rock albums from 2015 (in my honest opinion), What Went Down by Foals. Reminiscent of Spanish Sahara's epic-ness, London Thunder certainly representeda certain sadness I felt in 2015, which I no longer feel, of course:

"And now the tables turn, it's overAnd with my fingers burned I start anewAnd now I've come back down, I'm olderI look for something else to hold on to"

Hope you'll enjoy the playlist and listen to it in order.

Catch Jinmart for a night of '90s indie rock at the next Daydream Nation, every first Wednesday of the month at Canvas.